Pulse.ng : NOA sensitizes 2,400 community members on birth registration in Kaduna

By Aisha Gambo

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Thursday said it had sensitized 60 communities in six local government areas of Kaduna State on the importance of birth registration.

Zubair Galadima-Soba, NOA’s State Director made this known during a media briefing on the conduct of community reorientation and grassroots dialogue to promote birth registration and that of children under five, in Kaduna.

The program was organized by NOA in collaboration with the National Population Commission (NPC) with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

He said the community dialogue which lasted five days, was organized to raise awareness on the importance of birth registration and information on how to improve the exercise.

“A total of 2,400 community members were reached in 60 communities of Jema’a, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Chikun,Igabi and Sabon Gari local government areas.

“The outcome of community dialogue was successful as there was an impressive turnout of community members to register their children,” he said.

Earlier, Hajiya Adama Uthman, the NPC Director in the state, said that the commission was able to register 13,023 children in the six LGAs.

“We were at the grassroot with the National Orientation Agency during the 5-day reorientation of local communities where we registered children.

“We got information of the children from parents while filling the B1 form and issued them a birth certificate.

“In Sabongari LGA, we registered 2,902 children, 849 children were registered in Jema’a LGA, 2,000 in Chikun LGA, 2,239 in Igabi LGA, in Kaduna South LGA 1,879 were registered while 3,154 were registered in Kaduna North LGA”, she said. (NAN)

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Malami: My office not investigating Tinubu

March 10

07:592021

by Taiwo Adebulu 0 Comments

Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), says his office is not investigating Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Speaking during a programme on Channels Television on Tuesday, Malami said his office has not asked any agency to investigate the APC chieftain.

But the AGF said he cannot tell if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) are probing Tinubu as it is within their powers to do so.

“The Office of the AGF, as you rightly know, has not taken any decision, has not filed or instituted any action before any court in the land relating to Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he said.

“But then, within the context of the law as you rightly know, the EFCC and the Code of Conduct are all statutory bodies vested with statutory powers to act within the context of the law establishing them.

“So, I am not in a position to give you a precise answer and I will suggest to you that you may consider inviting the chairman of EFCC or perhaps the chairman of Code of Conduct for elaborate answers associated with those charges if any has been filed by those agencies.

“The Office of the AGF and its arm, which is the Director of Public Prosecutions, has not initiated any proceedings and no investigation has been instituted at its instance by any agency of government be it EFCC or the Code of Conduct Bureau.”

The EFCC had reportedly begun investigating the former Lagos governor demanding copies of Tinubu’s asset declaration form from CCB.